Four Miami Hurricanes defensive players getting NFL chance after being undrafted
Dean gets to stay home in an attempt to make the NFL. His attempt to make the NFL will be more difficult than Willis and Odenigbo. The former Hurricanes cornerback will have to impress the Dolphins enough to get invited to training camp after his minicamp tryout. The Dolphins minicamp begins May 10.
The Miami Herald reports that Dean also joins former Miami teammates, draftee Sheldrick Redwine and UFA Trayone Gray in the Cleveland Browns minicamp during the first weekend in May. Dean heads to Cleveland for a tryout with the Browns. Dean’s size and speed are intriguing to NFL Scouts.
Dean is 6’2 192 pounds and ran 4.3 seconds in the 40-yard dash at Miami’s pro day in March. He finished last season with 17 tackles and tied with Redwine and rising Junior Trajan Bandy for the Hurricanes team lead with three interceptions.
In two seasons at Miami Dean recorded 28 tackles, 0.5 TFLs, three interceptions and two pass breakups. The Miami Herald praised Dean as having “the physical gifts to develop into something even more than he was for the Hurricanes.”
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Dean was a four-star player and the nation’s top junior college cornerback coming out of Blinn Junior College in 2017. It’s now or never for him to live up to his ranking.